Rainforest Foundation UK

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Rainforest Foundation UK

The Rainforest Foundation UK supports indigenous people and
traditional populations of the world's rainforest in their efforts to protect
their environment and fulfil their rights to land, life and livelihood.
Indigenous peoples play an essential role in protecting this unique
environment. Yet most of them still lack the legal rights to defend their
rainforest home.

To change this we are leading an innovative community mapping
programme in the Congo Basin to highlight the presence of otherwise 'invisible'
forest peoples. Local communities use their maps to support legal claims to
their traditional lands and collectively the maps are used to influence
lawmakers to provide greater protection for indigenous peoples and their forest
in the world.

'MappingForRights'

By producing maps of their traditional
lands, otherwise ‘invisible’ remote rainforest communities can demonstrate
their presence to those charged with deciding what happens to these lands.

Photo: An indigenous woman using a tablet to map her traditional
land in Cameroon.

Map: Monitor: Protect:

Evidence is now showing that
rainforest is thriving in areas where forest peoples have been given the legal
title for their lands, like some areas of the Amazon, which is why the
Rainforest Foundation UK puts forest peoples’ rights at the centre of its work.

Photo: Rainforest in Peru

Putting the power in the hands of communities

With your
help, up to 1,000 communities, spanning over 4 million hectares of Congo Basin
rainforest, will be supported through RFUK’s mapping programme.

Photo: A
mapping team, made up of members of a local community, who are documenting
where they live and how they use the rainforest.